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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: Palestine, and mingle with this mighty confluence of nations? Till
that happy moment shall arrive, let me fill up the time with such
representations as thou canst give me. I am not ignorant of the
motive that assembles such numbers in that place, and cannot but
consider it as the centre of wisdom and piety, to which the best
and wisest men of every land must be continually resorting."
"There are some nations," said Imlac, "that send few visitants to
Palestine; for many numerous and learned sects in Europe concur to
censure pilgrimage as superstitious, or deride it as ridiculous."
"You know," said the Prince, "how little my life has made me
acquainted with diversity of opinions; it will be too long to hear
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